About the Book: Nitrogen Bomb
The Nitrogen Bomb is a work of narrative science nonfiction that argues that
Indias air-pollution crisis cannot be fully understood without understanding
nitrogen. Drawing on nearly two decades of reporting on science, environment,
energy, and climate, Jacob Koshy examines a major but little-discussed driver of
Indias PM2.5 burden: the ammonia released from agricultural urea, which reacts
with industrial and vehicular emissions to form the fine particulate matter that
engulfs cities like Delhi every winter. Despite a growing body of research on
this link, no Indian trade book has yet brought this story to the general
reader.
But the agriculture-pollution connection